Cosmos Institute researcher makes the liberal case for markets in the AI age
sebkrier · x · 2026-09-11
Aashish Reddy announces he has joined Cosmos Institute as a Researcher, arguing that how liberal institutions adapt to the AI age is the most important question of our time.
- His new essay, The Freedom To Find Out, offers a liberal defense of markets: liberal states govern through general rules rather than collectively chosen ends, because people pursue different, revisable conceptions of the good life.
- GDP is framed as a liberal measure — a scalar proxy for a society's capacity to solve problems, without dictating which ends to pursue.
- Markets let open-ended cooperation proceed at scale: prices coordinate plans under circumstances unknown to their authors, and rival experiments reveal ways of living that could not be judged in advance — Hayekian discovery meeting Millian experiments in living.
- Cosmos Institute, founded by Brendan McCord, focuses specifically on liberalism in the AI era.
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